Analysis of poem #24
David Plantinga 1972 (Sherbrooke)
A hungry alphabet will flock
One word to several things.
Taut meanings have diverged
From verbal hankerings.
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Ballad stanza Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 0101011 111101 110101 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 109 |
| Words | 17 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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